Later, as the number of microfilm machines and garish yellow chairs multiplied, the room became dowdy.

Before Chase could respond, a reporter at one of the microfilm machines looked up from his work.

She had a little trouble threading the microfilm machines but now she's doing just fine.

If someone ever invents a self-threading microfilm machine, half you guys are going to be out of a job.

By eleven, she was ensconced before one of the microfilm machines.

Do you know how to use the microfilm machine?

The clerk sat me down at the microfilm machine, rattling off a rapid series of instructions, half of which I missed.

In the computer analyst's office down the hall, the archaic, boxy microfilm machine sat squarely on a back table like a Buddha.

"I've been pulled in to work here for maybe three weeks," said Monserrati Rodriguez, who handled one of the microfilm machines.

"He used the microfilm machines and copied dozens of articles."